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First Steam Game

A bit of a dumb thread, I'll admit, but it should hopefully be an interesting method of gauging the general age of everyone's Steam accounts, and perhaps it might offer insight into nifty experiences with Steam (other than it being Valve's TF2 and HL2 delivery system)...

WHAT WAS THE FIRST GAME YOU EVER BOUGHT ON STEAM?(You can find this information out by going to the top right corner of your Steam window, clicking on your account name, and choosing "Account Details." The very first purchase will be on the bottom.)

It actually took me several years to buy something on Steam, and that was because the only decent computer I had in my life was at work. Oh, and when I finally did have a decent PC, I avoided Steam like the plague (mostly because I forgot my account name and password).

When I finally set up a new account, the first game I purchased was a pre-order of DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTIONSo that's not too bad, eh?

All went downhill from there, and now I have 280 something games and more money spent on them than I would ever be proud to admit.

Otherwise, Steam account general discussion, anyone? Feel free to show off your great deals, decked-out profiles, and other steam nonsense.

Well, Half-Life 2 got registered on my steam account, although I didnt buy it through it though. I have used Steam ever since it first started out, although my Day of Defeat clan hung onto the WON system until the very end. So I must have started using Steam somewhere in 2004.

I don't think you could buy games when steam first started, it was just a client to register HL2, if I recall. Anyway, that was the first game for me. Although the first one I paid money for.... looks like bookworm adventures deluxe. Hmmm. That doesn't sound right, but that's what steam tells me, from about 6.5 years ago :-).

I don't think you could buy games when steam first started, it was just a client to register HL2, if I recall.

You are correct(sort of), although just ever so slightly earlier it started out as the replacement multiplayer lobby system for the GoldSource Engine, replacing the WON network system(which either got shutdown or Valve stopped paying for it, I forgot). I vividly remember the final patches for the WON system, after which only the most recent versions appeared on Steam for games Like Team Fortress Classis, Day of Defeat etc.

I got my first Steam account with HL2. Can't tell which was the first one I bougt from the store. Until know I had about five or six accounts, currently I still have two. I tend to sell my old accounts because I wont touch most of the games after I finished them.

The Orange Box was my first Steam Store purchase. However, the first thing on my 'Account Details' list is Half Life 2 GOTY, so I'm not sure which it was - I think I must have purchased both of them around the same time.

Guild Wars 2:

Main character name is Seigous Bearheart. I also play on Duke Witherheart. And Lindenheart.

Re: price of Orange Box. It was the first time, for a long time, I'd ever bought a game on release day. Given the hundreds of hours I've spent on TF2, not to mention HL2 and Portal, I'm fine with how much it cost.